Scope and Contents "Referred to the Clinic and admitted to CR. Discharged recovered. Diagnosis: Melancholia. Symptoms began at Christmas 1943. She has not remained well since discharge, but has had hysterical fits - treated under Pentothal. Refused to return to CR. Parents alive - father suffers from mild depression. Unhappy childhood, parents separated, patient went to live with her father and his mistress who was a prostitute; stealing, truanting, vice. Parents now together again. Married a railway worker,...

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"Private patient. Obligant is brother. Principal Cause - heredity. Diagnosis - Melancholia. Onset of symptoms - 1941? Two maternal uncles committed suicide, ? alcoholism. Patient's brother was in CRI. Patient is one of a family of five. One sister died at 21 or 22 years, ? brain abscess. Love affair said to be possible cause. Patient is the eldest of the family. Patient never had employment."

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"Never mixes with anybody, used to come to church but has stopped doing even that. Said to have had a disappointment in love. Nurse confirms - she gave up the widower she was engaged to in order to keep house for her brother. She is very quiet."

Relatives in surey: Brother 33.47

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"This man is queer, dark and unshaven, writes love letters to any girl he sees. A shepherd. Lives with father and stepmother [45.39]."

Scope and Contents "Quite mad, dippy, is very annoyed because she thinks [name redacted] in Gretna is engaged to someone. Thinks people cry things after her in the street. Something went wrong with her own love affair. Doesn't work. Lives alone, mother dead. Nurse confirms - should be in the CRI. Very hallucinated and deluded, thinks the police tap on her window at night, interrupts the church service. Has private means. "Sex mania". Dr confirms: paranoid, hears voices, has delusions, is a terrible nuisance,...

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Song beginning 'Mhic a Phi Cholasay' [Colbhasa/Colonsay] probably collected from Ann Livingstone (née MacPherson) aged about 80 years, Bunawe [Bun Abha/Bonawe, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Text has been scored through as if copied elsewhere.